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OverviewThe English Civil War has become a frequent point of reference in contemporary political debate. A bitter and bloody series of conflicts, it shook the very foundations of seventeenth-century Britain. This is the first attempt to portray the visual legacy of this period, as passed down, revisited and periodically reworked over two and a half centuries of subsequent English history. Highly regarded art historian Stephen Bann deftly interprets the mass of visual evidence accessible today, from ornate tombs and statues to surviving sites of vandalism and iconoclasm, public signage and historical paintings of subjects, events and places. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stephen BannPublisher: Reaktion Books Imprint: Reaktion Books ISBN: 9781789142280ISBN 10: 1789142288 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 14 September 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Speaking Stones: Inscriptions of Identity from Civil War Monuments 2 A Kentish Family in Wartime: The Bargraves of Bifrons 3 Kings on Horseback: Charles I's Statue at Charing Cross and its Afterlife 4 Whig Views of the Past: Horace Walpole and Co. 5 Illustrating History: Visual Narratives from the Restoration to Hume's History of England 6 Boots and All: Cromwell Evoked by James Ward and Paul Delaroche 7 French Genre for English Patrons: Paul Delaroche's Charles I Insulted by the Soldiers of Cromwell 8 A Sense of an Ending: Problems of English History Painting in the Nineteenth Century Chronology Bibliography Acknowledgements List of Illustrations IndexReviewsThis is the mature work of a master scholar, superbly researched and written and pioneering a new field. --Ronald E. Hutton, FBA, Professor of History at the University of Bristol This book is the product of subtle reasoning and considerable scholarship, dealing not with great art but with a rich seam of visual culture. What emerges from this study is how deeply an awareness of the violent reversals of fortune, caused by this war, entered the English psyche, and how continuing operations of memory have ensured its role within the making of an historical national identity. --Frances Spalding, CBE, FRSL This book is the product of subtle reasoning and considerable scholarship, dealing not with great art but with a rich seam of visual culture. What emerges from this study is how deeply an awareness of the violent reversals of fortune, caused by this war, entered the English psyche, and how continuing operations of memory have ensured its role within the making of an historical national identity. --Frances Spalding, CBE, FRSL This is the mature work of a master scholar, superbly researched and written and pioneering a new field. --Ronald E. Hutton, FBA, Professor of History at the University of Bristol """This book is the product of subtle reasoning and considerable scholarship, dealing not with great art but with a rich seam of visual culture. What emerges from this study is how deeply an awareness of the violent reversals of fortune, caused by this war, entered the English psyche, and how continuing operations of memory have ensured its role within the making of an historical national identity.""--Frances Spalding, CBE, FRSL ""This is the mature work of a master scholar, superbly researched and written and pioneering a new field.""--Ronald E. Hutton, FBA, Professor of History at the University of Bristol" Author InformationStephen Bann CBE is Emeritus Professor of History of Art and Senior Research Fellow at Bristol University. His recent books include Distinguished Images: Prints in the Visual Economy of Nineteenth-Century France (2013) and Stonypath Days: Letters between Ian Hamilton Finlay and Stephen Bann 1970-72 (2016). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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